Germany would later codify this ban into their criminal code.
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The United States Criminal Code makes witness intimidation a felony.
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She wrote that the criminal code couldn't justify his case.
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Under the criminal code, rape must involve violence or intimidation.
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"The Romanian criminal code has 440 articles," Ms. Kovesi said.
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"The Constitutional Court resolves in the majority that Sections 301 and 305 of the criminal code should be amended to conform with the current situation," the statement read referring to criminal code articles on abortion.
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But this old law is still in the Federal Criminal Code.
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Harsh new penalties came into force under Brunei's Islamic criminal code.
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The state's Sharia criminal code went into effect in September 2015.
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He didn't refer to the criminal code or even the Constitution.
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The Moscow Times explains that the bill would change Russia's Criminal Code.
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So leave the first amendment and the criminal code out of it.
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Despite his best efforts, Trump stayed just north of the criminal code.
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Under Brazil's criminal code, qualified homicide is homicide aggravated by certain factors.
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Boehmermann addresses this section of the criminal code during the short video.
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Consider the implications of such an unprecedented extension of the criminal code.
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The proposed new criminal code has been in the making for decades.
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However, this is another disconnect between the coverage and the criminal code.
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The criminal code demands more than what Comey reportedly describes in his memo.
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The maximum sentence for polygamy under the Criminal Code is five years in prison.
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Mongolia passed a new criminal code that will abolish the death penalty this year.
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We have to take these proceedings out of criminal code and into civil code.
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Indonesia currently uses a version of the criminal code drawn up by Dutch colonists.
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This proposal would enforce a constitutional principle that goes beyond what the Criminal Code states.
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Most of these families follow the criminal code and spend much of their time working.
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Subsequently the law and the criminal code has been tightened to deal with specific issues.
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In the summer of 2015, Sisi declared that Egypt's criminal code wasn't fit for purpose.
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Other criminal allegations against Clinton do not require linguistic gymnastics to fit the criminal code.
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Germany's criminal code forbids insults of foreign leaders but prosecutors can decide whether to press charges.
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It may be bad judgment on his part, but it falls short of the criminal code.
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Take the new criminal code, which may at last become law in the next few months.
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Sodomy, or "unnatural offences", as the criminal code inherited from colonial times puts it, is outlawed.
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Under the criminal code, he could, if found guilty, be imprisoned for up to a year.
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Under section 302 of the Malaysian criminal code, a guilty verdict carries a mandatory death sentence.
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The Court will discuss challenges brought against proposed changes to the criminal code on Oct. 24.
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Jerry Brown removed the term from the state's criminal code in July 2015 following Hampton's arrest.
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The event was titled "222-32"—after the criminal code that outlaws indecent exposure in public.
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In 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada struck abortion from the Criminal Code, decriminalizing the procedure.
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Last week, Parliament rushed through changes to the country's criminal code overhauling abuse-of-power laws.
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Romanian officials said their plans are meant to reduce prison overcrowding and update the criminal code.
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Afghanistan made bacha bazi and related offenses violations of the national criminal code in May 2017.
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Since these amendments to the criminal code, reports of domestic abuse incidents in Russia have spiked.
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Under Canada's criminal code, a person cannot consent to sexual activity if he or she is incapable.
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As the RCMP previously told Motherboard, there is no power in the Criminal Code specific to encryption.
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The government's proposals include changes to both the federal criminal code and the Canadian Human Rights Act.
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Germany's criminal code prohibits insults against foreign leaders, but the government has leeway to pursue specific cases.
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Last month, thousands of protesters in Jakarta clashed with police after a new criminal code was announced.
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Nauru announced on Friday that the Crimes Act 2016 would replace the Nauruan Criminal Code of 1899.
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South Koreans are subject to their country's criminal code no matter where they are in the world.
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Capital punishment also remains in the criminal code of the federal government and U.S. military justice systems.
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Capital punishment also remains in the criminal code of the federal government and U.S. military justice system.
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Versions of the crime have also been listed in the federal criminal code since the 19th century.
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The new criminal code would also ban most abortions and crack down on criticisms of the president.
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Under the law, fetuses would be classified as "unborn humans," making abortion punishable under the Ohio criminal code.
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Parliament has debated revisions to the criminal code, including regulations on corruption, sex and alcohol, for many years.
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Conservative groups and politicians have urged parliament to revise the national criminal code to criminalize same-sex relations.
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On Monday, lawmakers begin debating changes to the criminal code that critics say will derail law and order.
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The suggestion of an obstruction case against Nunes reduces the criminal code to a virtual professorial parlor game.
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Georgia has overhauled its criminal code and juvenile-justice system, leading to noticeable declines in its prison population.
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We demand a bit more from our presidents than staying just short of the criminal code of conduct.
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Not only will the law preserve access to abortions, it also removes abortion from the state's criminal code.
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He was detained after crossing into Germany, whose criminal code, Spanish authorities believe, will allow for his extradition.
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Mr. Moro presented to Congress a proposed overhaul of the criminal code, which includes tougher anti-corruption measures.
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It appears nowhere in the federal criminal code except in obscure antitrust laws irrelevant to the Russian investigation.
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Under Bosnia's criminal code, citizens who leave to fight in foreign wars must be prosecuted under terrorism charges.
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Observers say the timing of these bills, and the proposed changes to the criminal code, is no coincidence.
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In particular, the left-leaning justice minister, Gustav Heinemann, began to push for reform of the criminal code.
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Canada abolished the death penalty from the Criminal Code in 1976 and from the National Defense Act in 20023.
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Wade, removes abortion from the criminal code and protects doctors or medical professionals who perform abortions from criminal prosecution.
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The new one tells prosecutors that under Canada's Criminal Code an accused person's unconditional release should be the default.
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Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has recently approved changes to the criminal code that would facilitate in-absentia convictions.
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Indonesia's parliament is also drafting revisions to the national criminal code that could ban all consensual sex outside marriage.
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Violations of this section of the criminal code are punishable by life in prison or death, the Post noted.
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Thailand's Lèse majesté law, based on Thai Criminal Code section 112, protects the royal family from criticism or defamation.
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Memorial, which Sevastidi had asked for help, said she was found guilty under Article 275 of Russia's criminal code.
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The current law that criminalizes fornication is included in the state's criminal code chapter on offenses against the family.
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Historically, Democrats have resisted such efforts to stretch the criminal code to criminalize broader and broader areas of conduct.
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Earlier this year, changes to the criminal code raised concerns from the European Commission and the U.S. State Department.
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Last year, the ruling party proposed reforming the criminal code to decriminalize abortion in certain circumstances, Egenaes tells Broadly.
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" Indeed, the statutory requirements for treason in the criminal code presume the defendant owed "allegiance to the United States.
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Article 112 of the Thai criminal code stipulates offenders can spend up to 15 years in prison for defaming him.
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He was charged under the Aeronautics Act and the Criminal Code and spent seven days in a Calgary correctional facility.
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The crimes that Wu has been accused of are punishable by up to life imprisonment, according to the criminal code.
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The parliamentary commission drawing up recommendations to change the Dutch colonial-era criminal code has still to finalize its proposals.
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They have also filed a different set of proposals to change the criminal code that could derail law and order.
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The judge said the question could be put to parliament, which is currently deliberating revisions to the national criminal code.
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Meanwhile, as the newcomers increasingly discard the old school criminal code of local drug markets, rivalry, enmity and violence intensifies.
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The ruling Social Democrats (PSD) will start to make changes to the criminal code in a parliamentary committee on Thursday.
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They face criminal charges due to injuring a law enforcement animal—a new addition to the Criminal Code in Canada.
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It often seems that both the U.S. criminal code and the Constitution are endlessly flexible when the subject is Trump.
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Both woman are charged with murder under section 302 of the Malaysian criminal code, which carries a mandatory death sentence.
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All of those interactions could be investigated and prosecuted — sweeping a wide array of political speech into the criminal code.
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It takes abortion out of the criminal code and puts it where women's health belongs -- in the public health law.
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Prosecutions in Ontario are guided by the Criminal Code, direction from the Supreme Court of Canada, and the medical science.
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A criminal code in Indonesia led to protests against its draconian laws, and the president's second term faces ongoing dissent.
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Following Thursday's ruling, Soledad Murillo, a former state secretary for gender equality, called for an overhaul of Spain's criminal code.
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That case implicated dozens of professional athletes and resulted in Spain changing its criminal code to make doping a crime.
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Fortunately, such radical expansions of our criminal code would face substantial opposition in the courts, particularly by First Amendment advocates.
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Ultimately, Aceh's Department of Shariah revised the criminal code and sent Parliament a new version without the provision on stoning.
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Eight were being investigated under the conspiracy and treason provisions of the criminal code, and the other two for hate speech.
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Section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada explicitly prohibits polygamy, and offenders could face up to five years in prison.
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The Democrats' two impeachment articles, charging Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, fall outside the federal criminal code.
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The report also said the Iraqi government could amend the country's criminal code to grant domestic courts jurisdiction over international crimes.
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Last month the Ulema Council, a powerful Muslim organisation run by Mr Amin, encouraged Jokowi to approve the new criminal code.
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They must establish that the underlying crime was committed and that they are following a consistent interpretation of the criminal code.
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He was not charged with terrorism, which under Canada's Criminal Code requires a broad proof of intent to intimidate the public.
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" Legal experts agree that is at least technically correct, as the federal criminal code does not detail a crime of "collusion.
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Florida: Criminal Code Section 934.50 forbids the use of drones for surveillance that violates another person&aposs reasonable expectation of privacy.
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It merely points to the passage in the German Criminal Code which declares the "defamation of religions, religious and ideological associations" illegal.
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A sixth, New York, recently passed legislation to eliminate its ban and remove abortion from the criminal code, fully decriminalizing the procedure.
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Amarasingam says the public view of terrorism in Canada is different to what it actually is: a crime under the Criminal Code.
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The criminal code would not be implicated in such a circumstance; there is nothing unlawful about releasing one's own tax returns. MSNBC.
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Indonesia's parliament is currently debating revisions to the national criminal code that could criminalize all sex outside marriage, including same-sex relations.
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Lawmakers are also debating a new set of proposals to change the criminal code - including decriminalizing some offences and lowering prison sentences.
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According to Broadly, the Canadian government is revising its criminal code to remove or rewrite a few ye olde laws and regulations.
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The criminal code, which is championed by conservatives that Widodo has been reluctant to confront, is expected to eventually make a return.
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Thousands of Indonesian students have clashed with police in protests against a new draft law that would change the country's criminal code.
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The human rights group said the new emergency law also introduced what it called troubling counter-terrorism measures into France's criminal code.
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Conservative politicians are campaigning to amend the criminal code, which is up for its five-year review, to criminalize same-sex relations.
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The criminal code that sets a ten-year sentence for convictions for "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" was ruled unconstitutional.
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The fact is that past impeachments have always looked to the federal criminal code to judge the gravity of such criminal allegations.
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It would be better to have prosecutors conclude that there was no obstruction or collusion under objective standards of the criminal code.
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Widodo's vice president in his next term starting in October, Islamic cleric Ma'ruf Amim, has also previously backed the new criminal code.
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When a sovereign is facing the "chopping block," it is not over some element of the criminal code but claims of illegitimacy.
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"Indonesia's draft criminal code is disastrous not only for women and religious and gender minorities, but for all Indonesians," argues Mr Harsono.
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The soldier was arrested on charges of violating the military criminal code, as well as a law against spreading obscene content online.
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In September, Parliament came close to passing an overhaul of the criminal code that would have effectively outlawed gay and lesbian relations.
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Likewise, Weissmann secured convictions against four executives with Merrill Lynch by stretching the criminal code beyond recognition The Fifth Circuit reversed them.
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Although Japan has an extensive pornography industry, it is regulated by a section of the criminal code that dates back to 1907.
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The state's Sharia criminal code went into effect in September 2015, and a number of people have been caned under the laws.
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In Australia, online harassment falls under section 474.17 of the Criminal Code, which was first introduced in 2004 and amended in 2012.
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And in January, New York passed a bill to remove abortion from the state's criminal code and maintain access even if Roe v.
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He urged ministers not to amend the criminal code via decree and sought to ease concerns about backsliding on commitments to tackle corruption.
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Under Germany's criminal code, insults against foreign leaders are not allowed but the government can decide whether to authorize prosecutors to go ahead.
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Since August, a team of lawyers has been arguing in Indonesia's Constitutional Court, on behalf of 12 individuals, to change the criminal code.
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The bill would amend the federal criminal code to permit lawsuits against foreign states and officials believed to be involved in terrorist attacks.
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Social Democrat lawmakers are currently trying to revise the criminal code and critics have said some of the proposed changes would damage investigations.
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The German criminal code prohibits insults leveraged against foreign leaders, but says that transgressions can be prosecuted on a case-by-case basis.
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For example, until quite recently, a husband could legally rape his wife with impunity under exemptions to the criminal code in most states.
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Presidents can be impeached for actions that are not crimes, not least because the criminal code was not written with Presidents in mind.
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It doesn't have to be a technical crime because at the time that the framers wrote the constitution there was no criminal code.
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Giuliani and Trump are correct, technically speaking, that there is no charge called "collusion" that can be found in the federal criminal code.
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For the first time, the Comey memo pushes the litany of controversies surrounding Trump into the scope of the United States criminal code.
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I also ordered Law and Human Rights Minister to gather feedback from the public again as an input for a better criminal code.
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Included in PiS-sponsored changes to the criminal code is life sentence without parole, considered inhumane by the European Court of Human Rights.
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In earlier comments, Attorney General Alejandro Gertz told lawmakers the reform would create a single criminal code, replacing 32 state and regional codes.
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According to a 2014 criminal code, all Bosnians who leave the country to fight in foreign wars must be prosecuted under terrorism charges.
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Royal defamation under article 112 of the criminal code, also known as lese-majeste, is punishable by up to 15 years in jail.
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Under Germany's criminal code, insults against foreign leaders are not permitted but the government can decide whether to authorise prosecutors to go ahead.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - The Serbian parliament on Tuesday adopted amendments to the criminal code which raise sentences for some serious crimes to life imprisonment.
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The previous Conservative government led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper changed the Criminal Code to allow judges to impose consecutive sentences for murder.
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The students are urging Jokowi to rescind the law and reject a proposed overhaul of the criminal code backed by arch-conservative Islamists.
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Thailand's royal insult law, known as Article 112 in the criminal code, makes it a crime to insult the king, queen, heir or regent.
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But following World War II, the newly formed Federal German Republic had to revise its criminal code and consequently opted to strengthen the law.
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And it's not just the laws, it's also our more punitive stance toward those who violate the criminal code, specifically African Americans and Latinos.
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In Bucharest, an estimated 4,000 protesters marched from government headquarters to parliament, where lawmakers will begin debating changes on Monday to the criminal code.
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Turkey's criminal code has contained such a law since 1926, but it was rarely applied before Mr Erdogan was elected president in August 2014.
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Few have considered the implications of broadening the scope of the criminal code and handing the government wider discretion in criminalizing speech and associations.
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Earlier this year, ruling party legislators pushed changes to the criminal code through parliament, drawing concern from the European Commission and U.S. State Department.
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While Trump has described these conclusions as "total exoneration," most believe the measure of presidential conduct is not found exclusively in the criminal code.
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Any act deemed disrespectful of the national flag in public can result in up to three years in prison, according to China's criminal code.
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Complaints covered a range of alleged offences under Germany's criminal code, including insult, defamation, incitement to hatred and incitement to crime, the report said.
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Under the criminal code, it is illegal to lure a child off the internet to commit another crime, such as sexual assault or kidnapping.
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Article 131 of the Dutch Criminal code prohibits incitement of violence; Article 137c restricts group defamation and Article 137d incitement to hatred or discrimination.
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In fact, the Criminal Code states that self-induced intoxication is not a defence when the accused commits a violent crime against another person.
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According to a 2014 criminal code law, all Bosnians who leave the country to fight in foreign wars must be processed under terrorism charges.
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Canada, for example, added a similar provision to its criminal code after a 1992 explosion at a mine in Nova Scotia killed 26 miners.
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One possible solution to this problem is to elect politicians to clean up the criminal code and get rid of needless and antiquated laws.
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That is why while there are some 50 Muslim-majority countries, a criminal code based on Shariah is implemented in only about a dozen.
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Student-led protests, which began last week, compelled Mr. Joko to put a hold on many of the bills, including the criminal code revision.
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But the Uzbek criminal code says the punishment for such offences can be as mild as a fine, or a fine plus prison time.
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There is no confirmed date for when the final vote on the criminal code will come, or what form the final legislation might take.
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Unlike in the criminal code, there are no elaborate rules of procedure or vast set of detailed statutes and case law to guide impeachment.
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Same-sex relations have been illegal in Ghana since the colonial era, and the current criminal code uses similar language to the original laws.
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While on paper trans people broadly enjoy many legal rights in Turkey, Hun explains that the judicial system often fails to the criminal code.
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Neither of the men have been charged with an offense, but arrested under a section of Bangladesh's criminal code that allows remand without charge.
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Article 112 of Thailand's criminal code says anyone who insults the king, queen, heir or regent faces punishment of up to 15 years in prison.
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This is so it can fulfill its duty to make necessary adjustments regarding sentencing standards and conduct a comprehensive review of the U.S. criminal code.
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Merkel said the German government plans to remove the section of the criminal code that requires it to grant permission for prosecution in such cases.
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The fact that such a rule still exists in New York's criminal code is enough for providers to refuse abortion care after a certain date.
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It takes the place of a criminal code from 1899 that was based on a British law that was itself overturned some 50 years ago.
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The law will permanently amend two articles of the criminal code that will further limit freedom of expression and penalize people for breaching quarantine orders.
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Earlier, he had told her about traditional criminal code of "righteousness and loyalty," but she seems to be the only one committed to upholding it.
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In the attack on Mr. Nygaard, Norwegian authorities filed charges under a rarely used article of the criminal code, protecting fundamental societal values from attack.
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" That evening, her father, Yefim Englin, was arrested under Article 58 of the criminal code, which was often used to persecute "enemies of the state.
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"There are many reasons why high crimes and misdemeanors are not and cannot be limited to violations of the criminal code," he said on Thursday.
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A spokesman for the Swiss attorney general's office said it had not released the name of the third defendant in line with Switzerland's criminal code.
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"The kingdom has assured me that it will review each of these cases under their code of criminal justice and their criminal code," he said.
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A president could only be impeached for actual crimes in the criminal code, Dershowitz argued — contradicting his stance during former president Bill Clinton's impeachment trial.
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Earlier this year, they pushed changes to the criminal code through parliament that have raised concerns from the European Commission and the U.S. State Department.
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That standard, paired with another ruling four years later saying use of force must be "objectively reasonable," set constitutional limits, but it doesn't dictate criminal code.
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It is the only province that criminalises same-sex relations and that uses Islamic law as its legal code in addition to the national criminal code.
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Meanwhile the Indonesian Constitutional Court is currently hearing a petition by a conservative group to recommend changing the country's criminal code to make homosexual sex illegal.
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The lower house has the final say on the revised criminal code, and is likely to pass the law in a final vote expected next week.
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It can be driven by misconduct that Congress concludes is an abuse of power, even if it does not constitute an offense of the criminal code.
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Unlike in the United States, the Canadian federal government is responsible for the entire criminal code, so legalization came with the stroke of a single pen.
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As I previously discussed, there are significant problems in shoehorning these facts into the criminal code and serious implications of stretching such definitions for future cases.
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Crimes may be revealed in upcoming testimony, but they need to be grounded in the criminal code rather than in the imagination of members of Congress.
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The legislation's proposed amendments to Canada's Criminal Code include offenses such as causing a person to undergo conversion therapy and advertising and profiting from conversion therapy.
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Mexico unfurled a new judicial model and criminal code between 2008 and 2016 but fell short on training judicial authorities to work in the new system.
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The Economic Espionage Act is one of the more complicated statutes in the federal criminal code because it has so many requirements for proving a violation.
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While some have dangerously stretched the criminal code to incriminate Trump, the most obvious and viable crime remains hacking into the email systems of the Democrats.
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Instead, we have diversionary programs for gun offenses, the routine downgrading of charges for violent crime, and entire sections of the criminal code that are ignored.
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Zoia must reside with her mother, not contact four individuals, and not possess any weapons as defined by in the Criminal Code, under the bail terms.
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This is a normal procedure in Indonesia and is supposed to ensure that the prosecution has met the requirements for an indictment under the criminal code.
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Apparently no one has advised Mr. Trump that the federal criminal code does not contain a provision granting immunity from prosecution to a President's early supporters.
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A canon lawyer, Capella is listed online as having written a 2003 paper for the Pontifical Lateran University on priestly celibacy and the church&aposs criminal code.
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Because it's forbidden under paragraph 219a of the German criminal code rules to advertise abortions, as they're still defined as a crime against life under German law.
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There is no criminal code violation, it&aposs not a violation of the Federal Campaign Election Act which specifically says foreign nationals may participate in American campaigns.
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Earlier this year, ruling party legislators pushed changes to the criminal code through parliament, drawing expressions of concern from the European Commission and the U.S. State Department.
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In their statement, the environmentalist groups said that under Austria's criminal code the safety institutes' use of "incorrect or falsified data" could amount to serious commercial fraud.
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To make matters worse, analysts have been twisting the criminal code in a virtual contest to find a way — any way — to indict Trump or his family.
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Husaini Wahab, a senior official in Aceh Besar district, said canings were meant to serve as a reminder to locals to adhere to the Islamic criminal code.
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"The government threatens those who stand up for human rights with the criminal code," the committee said in a statement, stressing that its activities were all lawful.
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Attempting suicide is a criminal offense in Nigeria, under Section 327 of the Criminal Code Act, and carries a penalty of up to one year in prison.
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What I realized was that attorneys were nearly as well versed in the Chicago Police Department's brand of street justice as they were in the criminal code.
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In the federal criminal code, a "crime of violence" includes offenses in which force either was used or carried a "substantial risk" that it would be used.
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" The sections of the Criminal Code that Marek plead guilty to date back to the 1940s, when the deaths of two boys were blamed on "crime comics.
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Increasingly, they have pressed charges against doctors who so much as mention abortion on their websites for breaking the law, paragraph 219a of the German criminal code.
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He argues that the actual elements of the crime are less important because "impeachable offenses are not governed by the strict terms" of the federal criminal code.
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The user who reported the content was notified that it had been blocked for a violation of section 130 of the German criminal code, incitement to hatred.
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Legislation dealing with domestic violence, reproductive rights, reproductive health, reforms to the criminal code, and the more recent gender parity law were all proposed by women legislators.
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Thirty police officers participated in the raid, Austrian authorities said, and their continuing investigation is focused on doping violations and possible sports fraud under Austria's criminal code.
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The core of that idea seems to not just be about the criminal code but about who unauthorized immigrants are and how we should think about them.
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The negligent actions taken are inherently reckless as to endanger human life, and are therefore included in virtually every state and federal criminal code as punishable offenses.
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Brunei this year also put into effect a criminal code that prescribes execution by stoning for gay sex (although the country's sultan says it will not be implemented).
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First, she called on Congress to pass a law clarifying that the president of the United States is subject to the same federal criminal code as everyone else.
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Why did nobody notify the public prosecutor, given that France's criminal code obliges civil servants to do so if they are aware of a breach of the law?
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A section of the German criminal code prohibits insults against foreign leaders but leaves it to the government to decide whether to authorize prosecutors to pursue such cases.
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Earlier this month, the European Commission said that proposed changes to the judicial system and criminal code signaled a reversal of a decade of democratic and market reforms.
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According to the Bangkok Post, the Royal Thai Navy filed a criminal complaint with police under a section of the criminal code that concerns threats to national sovereignty.
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Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, said he will ask the legislative assembly to repeal the new criminal code after weeks of protests by doctors and other groups against it.
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But a fail can trigger provincial penalties, regardless of whether or not a person has more THC in their body than the legal limit under the criminal code.
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Known as section 112 of the criminal code, it has drawn condemnation from the United Nations and rights groups who say accusers often abuse it for political gain.
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The case has provoked a Spanish version of the #MeToo movement, prompting many Spaniards to condemn a patriarchal culture, while the government vowed to review Spain's criminal code.
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Amendments to judicial legislation and pending changes to the criminal code "have favored people convicted for corruption," a professional association of judges said in a statement on Saturday.
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Among the changes to the criminal code is shortening the statute of limitations covering some offences, a move that would automatically shut down a number of ongoing cases.
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Although the law — known as Paragraph 2175 for the section it was part of in the country's Criminal Code — was eased in 1969, it stayed on the books.
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I singled out Canada's Federal Bill C-16, which adds legal protection for "gender identity" and "gender expression" to the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal code.
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With something like revenge porn or cyberbullying, there's often literally no legal recourse because these are unprecedented behaviors that may not fit neatly under any specific criminal code.
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Repeated efforts to classify violence against individuals based on their gender identity or gender expression in the Criminal Code as hate crimes were stymied by the previous government.
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Sex among men was illegal in Germany from its founding in 1871 until the last years of the 19603th century, under Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code.
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The new criminal code is due to be adopted in the next week after parliament and the government agreed a final draft on Wednesday, four parliamentarians told Reuters.
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On Thursday, hundreds of students staged protests outside parliament against the proposed changes to the criminal code, which even includes a three-year prison term for black magic.
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The new criminal code is due to be adopted in the next week after parliament and the government agreed a final draft on Wednesday, four parliamentarians told Reuters.
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Femicide is not recognized in the French criminal code, but Marlène Schiappa, the junior minister for gender equality, said the recognition would be discussed in the coming weeks.
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Femicide is not recognized in the French criminal code, but Marlène Schiappa, the junior minister for gender equality, said the recognition would be discussed in the coming weeks.
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Anger over the new law and a plan to revise Indonesia's criminal code that would ban extramarital sex and penalize insulting the president's honor have sparked student rallies.
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"The criminal code for cyber crime must be reformed and modernized, otherwise many of the crimes that we see cannot be sufficiently prosecuted," Georg Ungefuk told the newspaper.
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Euthanasia officially became legal in the province of Quebec last month following a tense legal battle over the law, which critics argued might violate the federal criminal code.
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Some claim such laws are unnecessary since Indiana's criminal code provides a list of "aggravating circumstances" (things like the victim's age and mental fitness) that could merit harsher sentencing.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is to bring in legislation that will mean individuals found guilty of doping are punished under the country's criminal code, according to Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko.
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In this police record, names would be listed beside alleged crimes and alleged attempted crimes — indeed, according to Louisiana's criminal code, an attempted crime against nature could be prosecuted.
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"Such an act may be a violation of the blasphemy section of the Criminal Code which concerns public mockery or scorn with reference to a religion," a prosecutor said.
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At the trial held in Moscow District Military Court, Karaulova speaks clearly but briefly, and keeps a copy of the Criminal Code on the seat in her glass cage.
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But I'd argue that the #MeToo movement needs to be about more than just offenses in the criminal code or workplace misconduct where there are clear power dynamics involved.
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Since the fall, the committee has approved nearly a dozen pieces of legislation, including the Sentencing Reform Act, the Recidivism Risk Reduction Act, and the Criminal Code Improvement Act.
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Rattled by the increasingly violent protests, the authorities have delayed the passage of the criminal code, which would have banned pre-marital sex and penalized insults against the president.
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To better combat organized crime, we also are strengthening the independence of the judiciary and law enforcement agencies, toughening the criminal code and creating a new anti-corruption prosecutor.
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It is the second time that the Constitutional Court has overturned criminal code changes made by the ruling coalition of Social Democrats and their junior partner, the ALDE party.
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Article 112 of Thailand's criminal code says anyone who insults the king, queen, heir or regent will be punished with up to 15 years in prison for each offense.
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Andreas Harsono, senior Indonesia researcher at Human Rights Watch, described the draft criminal code as "disastrous not only for women and religious and gender minorities, but for all Indonesians".
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Parliament approved a law tightening the criminal code, while the speaker, Ali Abdel Aal, told lawmakers that the emergency laws would be applied to media outlets and social media.
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The broad revision of the criminal code would have enacted numerous proposals favored by hard-line Islamists, such as banning sex outside marriage, effectively banning gay and lesbian relations.
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If McCabe did lie to investigators, the question is whether a lack of clarity will lead to a troubling lack of consistency in the interpretation of the criminal code.
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"Indonesia's draft criminal code is disastrous not only for women and religious and gender minorities, but for all Indonesians," said Andreas Harsono, senior Indonesia researcher at Human Rights Watch.
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Aceh is the only province in Muslim-majority Indonesia that criminalizes same-sex relations and that uses sharia as its legal code in addition to the national criminal code.
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Tokayev also said offences such as slander and libel would be removed from the criminal code and the article on hate speech would become more specific and less harsh.
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Widodo has delayed parliament's vote on the criminal code, which would replace a Dutch colonial-era set of laws, saying a new parliament should review the bill next month.
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There is a section of the criminal code that deals with threats against federal officials, but it is generally limited to threats to assault, kidnap or murder such officials.
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None of those migrants were charged with terrorism, a rarely used clause in the criminal code that penalizes forcing action from state actors, such as police, in any way.
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A bill to explicitly recognize crimes of hate based on sexual orientation in Peru's Criminal Code (twice rejected by Congress), was finally passed and added to the constitution in February.
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The defense is also expected to challenge the mandatory four or five-year minimum sentence for attempted murder and argue that the relevant sections in the Criminal Code are unconstitutional.
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The court ruled on Wednesday that the part of the criminal code that sets a 10-year sentence for convictions for "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" is unconstitutional.
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Thousands of magistrates, centrist President Klaus Iohannis, the European Commission, the U.S. State Department and seven EU states have all criticized both the approved bills and the criminal code proposals.
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Ivory Coast should revise its criminal code, which punishes rape without defining it, provide victims with free legal aid and hold special court sessions for rape cases, the UNOCI said.
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The Social Democrats also filed various new changes to the criminal code that would decriminalize several graft offences, their second attempt in a year to weaken a crackdown on corruption.
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The changes to the criminal code will have a broader impact, because criminal law is solely a federal responsibility in Canada, while each province has its own human rights charter.
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That part of the Criminal Code has also been struck down in other provinces, and Fagan said the issue will end up being decided in the Supreme Court of Canada.
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There are numerous laws dealing with different types of obstructive conduct in the federal criminal code, like witness tampering, interfering with a federal audit and the examination of a bank.
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"I have ordered the law and human rights minister to convey this decision to parliament, to delay the confirmation of the criminal code bill," Widodo told a televised news conference.
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Article 112 of the criminal code says anyone who "defames, insults or threatens the king, queen, heir-apparent or regent" will be punished with up to 15 years in prison.
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On Thursday, the bill's chief proponent announced that he was withdrawing the proposal but said that some of its provisions could still be enacted as amendments to the criminal code.
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In 2003, the German Bundestag passed a law earmarking funds for a memorial to those who fell victim to Section 175 of the former German Criminal Code, which bared homosexuality.
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"It's interesting, because under Section 208 of the criminal code, the president is exempt from almost every conflict-of-interest [law]," Chaffetz said in an interview on Tuesday in Washington.
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Under Article 112 of Thailand's criminal code, those convicted of insulting the king, queen, heir or regent can face up to 15 years in jail for each count of the offence.
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Whether it is the creative use of the criminal code to advance liberal issues du jour, or the targeting of Conservatives by partisan prosecutors, our system is in need of change.
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A parliamentary commission drawing up changes to the Dutch colonial-era criminal code has been consulting with the public and taking the opinions of religious scholars, legal experts, and rights groups.
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"This (reform) takes abortion out of the criminal code and puts it at the forefront of healthcare," said member of parliament Alex Allinson, whose private member's bill received almost unanimous backing.
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It is true that Manafort is not "the head of the mob," but he is facing compelling allegations of an array of criminal acts running the gamut of the criminal code.
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This will require significant efforts by police departments around the country to develop training that goes far beyond learning the criminal code, filling out an incident report or firing a gun.
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The government said it was merely bringing the criminal code into line with recent rulings by the Constitutional Court and an EU legal directive and also wanted to ease jail overcrowding.
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She also argued that removing abortion from the criminal code would mean that if a fetus died as the result of an assault on a woman there would be no prosecution.
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Under the Canadian Criminal Code, the burden of proving terrorist intent is high, and legal experts said prosecutors likely concluded that securing a first-degree murder conviction would be less risky.
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Wade, New York passed the Reproductive Health Act, which protects access to abortions at the state level even if the historic decision is overturned, and removes abortion from the criminal code.
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Republicans have argued that because Democrats didn't charge Trump with a crime — a violation of the criminal code — he should not have been impeached and should not be removed from office.
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But he also urged the organizations to stay on the "right track" and said that he planned to monitor their reports to ensure that they did not violate Cambodia's criminal code.
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The new criminal code would also apply to foreigners — something critics have pointed out would be detrimental to a country trying to attract more tourists, according to The New York Times.
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The Canadian Criminal Code can treat both actual and imaginary representations of children as child pornography, while the 1st Amendment in the US should, in principle, protect artistic depictions of children.
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" Malice murder, as defined by the Georgia state criminal code, "shall be implied where no considerable provocation appears and where all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart.
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Interim Justice Minister Ana Birchall has said she plans to meet the top magistrates council, chief prosecutors and other members of the judiciary on Monday to discuss changes to the criminal code.
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CORRUPTION Student protests may persist amid anger over a law that they say weakens the war on graft and other controversial new bills, including a criminal code that outlaws sex outside marriage.
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On April 24, 2007, the Legislative Body of Mexico City approved a reform of the Criminal Code to allow for the legal termination of pregnancy up to the 12th week of gestation.
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Prawet appeared in a Bangkok court on Wednesday and was charged with 10 counts of royal insult and three counts of breaking Section 116 of Thailand's criminal code, the equivalent of sedition.
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" The European Union echoed that statement and said in a statement Wednesday that "some of the punishments foreseen in the criminal code amount to torture, acts of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
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In order to prosecute the defendants at Nuremberg, the Allies and their lawyers basically had to convert the Pact into a criminal code that made individuals liable for illegal acts of war.
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Under Canada's Criminal Code Section 163.1, a child sex doll constitutes child pornography; a real child does not technically need to be portrayed for the definition of child pornography to be met.
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Ms. Lieberman's organization has been pushing new legislation that would enshrine Roe in state law and remove regulation of abortion from the criminal code, where it has remained since the 19th century.
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Yocca pled guilty to "attempted procurement of a miscarriage" — an obscure Class E felony that was added to Tennessee's criminal code in the late 226s, and is still on the books today.
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Under the country's criminal code, a woman who undergoes an abortion can be punished with up to a year in prison or a fine of up to 2 million won, about $1,750.
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Does the phrase "or other high crimes or misdemeanors" in Article II, Section IV of the Constitution require a violation of U.S. criminal code, or is a breach of public trust sufficient?
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The prime minister and justice minister have said the decrees were needed to get the criminal code in line with recent constitutional court rulings and ease the burden of Romania's overcrowded prisons.
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The U.S. Justice Department has pushed for the rule change since 2013 and has portrayed it as a procedural tweak needed to modernize the criminal code to pursue sophisticated 21st century criminals.
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One far-reaching measure, a proposed revision of the criminal code, would outlaw abortion except in cases of rape and incest and prohibit sex outside marriage, effectively banning gay and lesbian relations.
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The people of Louisiana need to elect legislators who have the backbone to try to change the criminal code, and give adequate funding to the public defenders fighting this type of injustice.
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Members of the State Duma passed the controversial amendment to the Russian criminal code in its second reading, which essentially assures it will go to President Vladimir V. Putin for his signature.
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In Indiana's criminal code, unlike in some other states, she said, inmates in correctional facilities are not considered dependents; Ms. Dockery's caregivers are thus not criminally liable for failing to provide help.
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Instead, they argued before the court, the charge, which carries no formal definition in the Criminal Code, was linked to 'buggery' — a similar charge also criminalized homosexual acts — and therefore required penetration.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's cabinet on Wednesday approved draft amendments to the criminal code envisaging harsher sentences for people-smuggling, a move aimed at stanching the flow of illegal migrants, Tanjug news agency reported.
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"The new criminal code adopts the principle of universality, which means that wherever an Indonesian citizen commits a crime, they can be legally processed in Indonesia," said lawmaker Arsul Sani, referring to terrorism.
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NotPetya took its name from its resemblance to the ransomware Petya, a piece of criminal code that surfaced in early 2016 and extorted victims to pay for a key to unlock their files.
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The overhaul is facing legal challenges by the centrist opposition at the Constitutional Court, as are separate changes to the criminal code which would eliminate or reduce punishment for a range of crimes.
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The delays and long distances can result in up to 14 days passing between a person's arrest and their bail hearing — significantly higher than the three-day maximum allowed by Canada's Criminal Code.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Senate approved changes to the criminal code on Wednesday that could shut down a number of ongoing high-level graft cases in one of the European Union's most corrupt states.
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Amnesty has called on Seoul to "repeal this archaic and discriminatory provision in the military criminal code," criticizing the government for being slow to protect the rights of sexual minorities within the country.
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The court ruled that provisions of the article within the country's criminal code failed to comply with the principles of law and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, according to state news.
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This is not how you build an "O" bomb As I have previously argued, none of the allegations raised over obstruction fit well with the criminal code or prior opinions defining that crime.
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Paul Cassel, a former federal judge, told The Hill that he believes the emails in question amount to extortion or blackmail under a separate section of the U.S. criminal code overseeing interstate communications.
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"I'm hesitant to pass something when we get into itemizing every potential wrongdoing that a legislator could commit, lest this become a criminal code rather than a code of ethics," said state Rep.
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But as Georgetown law professor David Super points out, "We have right now a criminal code that is bursting at the seams with offenses," making it easy to break laws without realizing it.
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Trump and his supporters argue that the raid on his attorney's office violated attorney–client privilege, despite criminal code provisions for obtaining evidence from attorneys who are themselves under investigation for criminal activity.
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" Moreover, the bills would amend the criminal code to say that a diagnosis of "gender dysphoria, gender confusion, or similar conditions ... does not serve as a defense to the offense of indecent exposure.
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It also called for changing the criminal code to classify some killings of Indigenous women by spouses with a history of violent abuse as first-degree murder, whether they were premeditated or not.
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And so when state lawmakers were amending the relevant section of the state criminal code anyway, it might have seemed like the perfect time to get rid of the outdated, unconstitutional sodomy ban.
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The parliamentary commission has been holding consultations with the public, taking the opinion of religious scholars, legal experts and rights groups over how to change the criminal code where it relates to extramarital sex.
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It has also taken a hardline stance against suspected transgressors of Article 112 of the criminal code which makes anyone found guilty of insulting the monarchy liable to imprisonment for up to 15 years.
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Indonesia's parliament is currently deliberating revisions to a Dutch colonial-era criminal code, including proposals to outlaw sex outside marriage, same-sex relations, and co-habitation, all of which were previously unregulated by law.
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The Dalian Intermediate People's Court in northeastern China said Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was given a death sentence based on the nature and severity of his crime and in accordance with the Chinese criminal code.
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President Joko Widodo said 14 articles of the new criminal code needed further review after input from various groups and ordered his minister "to perfect" the bill before it is deliberated on by parliament.
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Two members of the House are looking to rein in the size and the scope of the criminal justice system with a new bipartisan bill targeting the federal criminal code and prison system. Reps.
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But parliament is considering revamping the national criminal code to impose restrictions on consensual sex outside marriage – a move that activists say could be used to target the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community.
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Cameron Ortis is accused of multiple offenses under the Security of Information Act, as well as two sections of the country's Criminal Code, according to a statement from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
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Within weeks, lawmakers could vote on a new law that looks set to criminalize sex outside of marriage and homosexual sex in Indonesia, as part of wide-reaching changes to the country's criminal code.
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Indeed, for months I asked for someone to point to a crime of collusion in the criminal code or the criminal evidence to support a criminal indictment if such a related charge is made.
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The NYCLU hopes this report will urge legislators to move abortion regulations from the criminal code into the Public Health Law, updating New York Public Health Law to reflect a woman's constitutional right to choose.
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The state security service was investigating him under an article in the criminal code covering "violations of citizens' equality depending on racial ethnicity, religious convictions, incitement of inter-confessional hostility," SBU official Ihor Huskov said.
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Neighboring Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population, is on the cusp of revising its national criminal code to impose restrictions on same-sex relations and consensual sex between men and women outside marriage.
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It should be noted that similar protection is also provided for kings and queens, heirs-apparent of other states, as well as official representatives thereof as stated in articles 133-134 of Thailand's Criminal Code.
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Under the proposed law, which was included in an update of Indonesia's Criminal Code, it would be illegal for a person to claim they possess the ability to cast spells for evil, or vindictive purposes.
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More recently, a new statute in North Dakota, arguably prompted by protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline, criminalizes masking, and a new bill in Missouri would introduce an anti-masking law to the criminal code.
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"Discussions of (revisions to the criminal code) betray strains of intolerance seemingly alien to Indonesian culture that have made inroads here," Zeid told a news briefing, adding that he believed the proposed rules were "discriminatory".
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Police cited a national criminal code article prohibiting "obscene displays" to justify asking the women to leave the beach, although at least one judge ruled after the incident that going topless was not a crime.
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"The investigation department of the Federal Security Service of Russia initiated a criminal case against a US citizen under article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation," the agency said in a statement.
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In 1962 it produced the Model Penal Code, a comprehensive system of laws that was meant to reflect the view of the nation's best legal thinking on what an ideal criminal code should look like.
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To date, the Obama campaign has not been formally charged or accused of committing a knowing and willful violation, which is the legal standard for an election offense to be prosecuted under the criminal code.
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The detainee was held on four counts of running an unlicensed money-transfer operation, conspiracy, money laundering in violation of 17 acts in the U.S. criminal code, and transactions in cash acquired through illicit means.
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On September 20th President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, abruptly asked Indonesia's parliament to delay a vote on a new criminal code that has provoked a storm of criticism both at home and abroad.
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Things ticked off with some lawyer named Ken Starr giving a lecture to the Senate about why impeachment is bad and how you need a crime under the US Criminal Code for impeachment to count.
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Thailand's top court said this section of the criminal code contradicted the constitution, referring to articles in the constitution that guarantee equal rights for men and women, as well as rights to liberty and life.
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Identifying these people creates a valuable early warning system for the FBI, as well as state and local law enforcement; in fact, the FBI began recording animal abuse in its Uniform Criminal Code in 2016.
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No date has been set for the vote on the new criminal code, but a conservative lawmaker told CNN strict new restrictions against same sex-relations and extramarital sex will be included, no matter what.
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Though the president had ordered a delay in the criminal code, Wahyudin said he wants to make sure parliament does not pass the bill into law until they change it to reflect demand from protesters.
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"The charges against a senior employee of the RCMP for alleged criminality under the Criminal Code and the Security of Information Act have shaken many people throughout the RCMP, particularly in Federal Policing," it said.
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Romania's upper house of parliament voted through the change to the criminal code, in the face of complaints and protests from opposition politicians and anti-corruption activists who have accused the government of allowing widespread graft.
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Police Colonel Jaturon Trakulpan, a superintendent in northeastern Chaiyaphum province, said Jatupat Boonpattararaksa, an activist who has staged several anti-junta protests, was arrested and charged with royal insult under Article 112 of Thailand's criminal code.
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The U.S. Justice Department has pushed for the changes to the federal rules of criminal procedure for years, arguing they are procedural in nature and the criminal code needed to be modernized for the digital age.
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Article 175 of the Criminal Code of Japan forbids distributing "indecent" materials—and hentai definitely counts as indecent—and requires that pornography be at least partially censored with a black bar or a mosaic blur effect.
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The Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Bill requires internet companies remove "abhorrent violent material" from their platforms, defined as the streaming of terrorism, murder, attempted murder, torture, rape, and kidnapping on social media.
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Neighboring Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim population, is on the cusp of revising its national criminal code to impose restrictions on same-sex relations and consensual sex between men and women outside marriage.
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"The investigative department of the FSB of Russia against a US citizen opened a criminal case under article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ['Espionage']," Russia's FSB agency told the news agency Tass.
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When some of us have objected that such claims of clear criminal acts did not meet the standard of the criminal code or prior rulings, experts have insisted that this is more of a political judgment.
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Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said he wanted to look at banning products that could cause so many deaths and that the country's criminal code was being amended to toughen the punishment for people caught selling them.
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The new legislation, entitled bill C-16, will add gender identity and gender expression as a protected class in the Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code, as was first reported by VICE News last week.
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MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government plans to make it illegal to glorify the regime of former dictator General Francisco Franco as part of a reform of the country's criminal code, the Socialist Party said on Monday.
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Asked repeatedly by reporters about Mr. Ferrand's case, Mr. Bayrou read from a voluminous copy of the French criminal code to back his decision not to comment on the legal proceedings, citing the separation of powers.
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"These funds were the proceeds of a drug importation syndicate and were proceeds of crime, within the meaning of the Criminal Code Act," AUSTRAC's statement of claim says, referring to CC&B only as Company 1.
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"Many Islamist leaders are going to put pressure on every politician (to pass the criminal code) ... Many politicians in a conservative country like Indonesia will think twice before standing up for an LGBT individual," he said.
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Human Rights Watch called the draft criminal code "disastrous not only for women and religious and gender minorities, but for all Indonesians," and is calling on lawmakers to drop the controversial articles before passing the law.
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"However, there is no specific power in the Criminal Code to compel a third party to decrypt or develop decryption tools, nor is there any requirement for telecommunications services to provide these services," the statement concludes.
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Article 112 of Thailand's criminal code says anyone who "defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent" will be punished with prison terms of up to 15 years for each offense.
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"The plaintiff should submit their petition to lawmakers, and there it should be an important input in the ongoing revision of the national criminal code," Hidayat said, as he read a summary of the 600-page ruling.
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There he lingered in jail for three months, arrested under Article 221 of the Chinese criminal code, a little-used provision that makes it an offense to fabricate and spread claims that seriously damage a business's reputation.
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Thanathorn is accused of breaking article 116 of the Thai criminal code, the equivalent of sedition; article 189, for assisting others who committed a serious crime; and article 215, for an assembly of more than 10 people.
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Prosecution legal team spokesman, Feizal Syahmenan, told CNN they would like three articles changed in the criminal code -- one to outlaw sex outside of marriage, one to outlaw homosexual rape and one to outlaw homosexual sex entirely.
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Now those who re-post "undesirable" Facebook posts, spend time catching Pokemon in a church or express heterodox opinions are subject to prosecution under Article 85033 of the criminal code and can be put away for years.
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Section 53 of the criminal code, which threatens people who engage in "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" with up to ten years in prison, is unconstitutional, ruled the chief justice, Kenneth Benjamin, on August 10th.
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" This is true in the literal sense: there is no section in the criminal code that says "it is a crime for a political campaign to 'collude' with a foreign power in order to win an election.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Constitutional Court on Monday struck down changes to the criminal code made by the ruling Social Democrats that would have halted many anti-graft cases in one of the European Union's most corrupt countries.
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Many in maternity care feel that only a consumer movement demanding respect and autonomy will curb the abuse; internal regulation is unlikely, they say, and state-by-state changes to criminal code would occur far too slowly.
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"Unfortunately our partner stores are likely to deny the content in certain regions whether it be about punching a Nazi or being punched by a Nazi," they said, citing the German criminal code relating to anti-fascism.
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The U.S. Justice Department, which is pushing for the rule change, has described it as a procedural tweak needed to modernize the criminal code, and has said it would not permit searches that are not already legal.
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Despite each demonstration stemming from vastly different issues, many have common threads: citizens want to express their discontent with their current governments, from the "yellow vest" protests in Paris to Indonesian protests against a draconian criminal code.
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The class action relies on the definition of a "crime against humanity" as determined by the International Criminal Court and Australia under Section 268 of the Commonwealth Criminal Code, which includes torture, imprisonment, persecution and inhumane acts.
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Mr. Joko also gave initial support to a sweeping overhaul of the criminal code that would have prohibited abortion except in cases of rape and incest and outlawed sex outside marriage, effectively banning gay and lesbian relations.
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In a decision criticized by media and other political parties, Merkel last week agreed to allow prosecutors to pursue a case against Jan Boehmermann under a section of the German criminal code that prohibits insults against foreign leaders.
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The attempt to receive a foreign emolument, in the form of material assistance for his reelection campaign, is just the sort of solicitation and receipt of bribes and gratuities that are prohibited by the United States criminal code.
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Harris went on to say there is still a lot of work to do on criminal justice, namely addressing mass incarceration, bail revisions and the disproportionate application of the criminal code, but stands by what she has done.
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On Tuesday, Sydney time, a crucial bill was introduced into the state parliament of New South Wales that would finally remove abortion from its criminal code — making it almost the last Australian state or territory to do so.
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The ECRI welcomed positive developments such as amendments to the criminal code making racist motivation an aggravating circumstance, the passage of a law on eliminating all forms of discrimination and the adoption of a national human rights strategy.
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Since abortion is still in New York's criminal code, doctors who perform abortions after 24 weeks for any reason other than to save the mother's life—the only exception written in state law—can be prosecuted as criminals.
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CNN's legal analysts say the alleged plan to kidnap Fethullah Gulen and subvert the US legal process would directly violate the US criminal code and could carry a punishment of as much as 20 years in federal prison.
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He referred to the article 112 of Thailand's criminal code which says anyone who "defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent" will be punished with up to 15 years in prison.
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BRISBANE, Australia — Activists in the Australian state of Queensland have tried for decades to scrap a criminal code from 1899 that makes having an abortion an offense punishable with prison time, and for decades their efforts have failed.
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Vince Li, who's gradually been given more freedom since he killed a 22-year-old man in 2008, has been approved by the Manitoba Criminal Code Review Board to move out of the group where he currently resides.
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But as lawmakers look to shore up conservative votes ahead of elections, parliament appears on the verge of revising the national criminal code to impose restrictions on same-sex relations and consensual sex between men and women outside marriage.
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In criminal investigations, the FBI can seek a warrant under Title III of the U.S. criminal code by showing a federal court that there is probable cause to believe the target has engaged, or is engaging in, criminal activity.
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Unfortunately, the federal criminal code has exploded from a handful of criminal provisions a century ago to what is now estimated to be more than 4,500 criminal statutes, and hundreds of thousands of additional criminal provisions in federal regulations.
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The bill being voted on today, the Reproductive Health Act (RHA), would amend state law to bring abortion regulations in line with Roe and move the procedure from the state's criminal code to the public health code, effective immediately.
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The reform would amend several articles of the constitution, create a new criminal code, set out new procedures, modify an existing law that details legal challenges, and change the legal framework of the attorney general's office and its regulations.
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Jokowi's handlers would still have you believe that in some respects he is on the side of protesters, one of whose strongest objections is to proposed revisions to a criminal code that dates back to the Dutch colonial era.
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One month later, Mr. Bolsonaro submitted a bill to expand the so-called "excludente de ilicitude" — an article in Brazil's criminal code that allows impunity for some illegal acts in special circumstances, including those practiced by law enforcement officers.
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"We're set up with all the proper protocols and things in place in order to be doing the work we're doing, which is very serious in nature because we're intersecting with issues that tie into the criminal code," cybertip.
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I can tell you that I've won a bunch of elections, and it would be very hard in my district to justify impeachment unless you could point to a particular section of the criminal code that had been violated.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's parliament is drafting proposed revisions to the national criminal code that could ban all consensual sex outside marriage, sparking alarm among activists who it would breach basic rights and could be misused to target the LGBT community.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's ruling Social Democrats have filed a slew of new changes to the criminal code that would decriminalize several graft offences, including some abuse of office crimes, their second attempt this year to weaken a crackdown on corruption.
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Speaking ill of the king and the royal family is not only taboo but also illegal under the criminal code which makes anyone who "defames, insults or threatens the king, queen, heir-apparent or regent" liable to 15 years in prison.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's state security service said it raided the residence of a senior Russian-backed Orthodox priest on Friday, who heads one of the country's holiest sites, citing a clause in the criminal code relating to whipping up religious hatred.
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Transparency International ranks Romania among the European Union's most corrupt states, and Brussels, which keeps the country's justice system under special monitoring, is especially concerned that the overhaul and the pending changes to the criminal code will reverse graft-fighting progress.
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KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah said the agency had evidence of repeated meetings between Basir and the other suspects and that under the criminal code a person could be made a suspect in a case for accepting the promise of a bribe.
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These and other concerns led the investigators at PricewaterhouseCoopers to write, "It is recommended that legal counsel be sought by AIBA as the actions, and nonactions, of some of the directors may contravene" several articles in the Swiss Criminal Code.
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A year after the terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and shook the country, the French government has responded by tightening its criminal code, expanding police powers and, for the first time since 1872, creating a national guard.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru has legalized homosexuality, replacing its century-old criminal code with a new law that also criminalizes slavery and broadens the definition of rape to apply to married and unmarried couples.
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BUCHAREST, Romania — The Romanian Parliament approved changes to the criminal code in unusually swift fashion this week, overhauling abuse-of-power legislation that critics say will have damaging and long-lasting effects on the rule of law in the country.
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"The criminal code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity, that without an easy access to exceptions in the favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel," Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 74.
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Overall, it would amend several articles of the constitution, create a new federal criminal code, set out new procedures, modify an existing law that defines legal challenges, and change the legal framework of the attorney general's office and its regulations.
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The proposed revisions to the criminal code also include a ban on sex outside of marriage, a four-year jail term for abortions in the absence of a medical emergency or rape and a prison term for black magic. 5.
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In an impeachment investigation, House members are not required to adhere to the definition of bribery in the criminal code and can define the term more broadly to encompass corrupt uses of presidential authority for personal gain, legal experts said.
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Aside from opposing the new criminal code, students say they oppose changes to a law governing the anti-graft agency, known by its initials KPK, and the appointment of new agency commissioners that critics say will weaken the fight against corruption.
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The new case accuses Thanathorn of breaking article 116 of the Thai criminal code, the so-called sedition law; article 189, for assisting others who committed a serious crime; and article 215, for unlawful assembly of more than 10 people.
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Brown was arrested and charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud under the Criminal Code 1974 (Papua New Guinea) by the National Fraud & Anti-Corruption Directorate of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary on Monday, the firm said in a statement.
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The judge was relying on an article in the Tunisian Criminal Code which stipulates that while sex with a girl under 15 without the use of force is punishable by six years in prison, the culprit can halt proceedings by marrying the victim.
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The U.S. Justice Department, which is pushing for the rule change, has described it as a procedural change needed to modernize the criminal code for the digital age, and has said it would not permit searches or seizures that are not already legal.
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The men are suspected of "potential offenses against the Commonwealth Criminal Code Act, specifically those concerning incursions into foreign countries to engage in hostile activities," according to a joint press release by the Australian Federal Police, Victoria Police and the Queensland Police Service.
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"Georgia codifying this concept in its criminal code is potentially a grave step that has some known and many unknown ramifications," representatives of Google and Microsoft wrote in a joint letter to Governor Deal in April urging him to veto the legislation.
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Under an unusual section of Germany's criminal code, the government must authorize prosecutors to investigate an individual suspected of insulting a foreign head of state in response to a formal demand for prosecution from a foreign government - in this case the Turkish government.
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I will also begin working with my colleagues in the 115th Session to reintroduce the Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act, which amends the federal criminal code to prohibit a government agency from intentionally intercepting geolocation information, or disclosing it, without a warrant.
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As a result, legislators amended the Russian criminal code to add Article 148, which classifies "public actions, expressing clear disrespect for society and committed in order to insult the religious feelings of believers," as a federal crime; in other words, it outlaws blasphemy.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel last week agreed to allow prosecutors to pursue the case against Boehmermann under a section of the German criminal code that prohibits insults against foreign leaders but leaves it to the government to decide whether to authorise such cases.
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" The Venice Commission, the Council of Europe's advisory body on constitutional matters, said on Friday that changes made to Romania's criminal code and procedures "seriously weaken the effectiveness of its criminal justice system to fight corruption offences, violent crimes and organized criminality.
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"The New York State Department of Health has long held that 'commencement of pregnancy' means conception," says Katharine Bodde, senior policy counsel at the New York Civil Liberties Union, which has been fighting to remove New York's abortion law from the criminal code.
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The legislation, which is being pushed through congress by Sérgio Moro, Brazil's justice minister, would expand the excludente de ilicitude, an article in the country's criminal code which permits actions normally considered crimes to go unpunished, such as killing in self-defence.
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The revised warrant, lawyers with the U.S. attorney's office in D.C. argued Thursday, is sufficiently particular about the information that the government is allowed seize from the requested data — only that which constitutes evidence of a violation of D.C. criminal code governing rioting.
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The governing party says the bill, labeled a reform to the criminal code, will make "adjustments" to Mexico's new legal system, a linchpin of cooperation with the United States that was completed last year with more than $300 million in American aid.
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The U.S. State Department's most recent, 2016 human rights report on Kazakhstan talks of "significant human rights problems," increasingly "limited freedoms of speech, assembly and religion," and vague provisions of the criminal code being "particularly open to abuse" in targeting government opponents.
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They were endorsing the Survivor's Bill of Rights, 2016 legislation which amended the federal criminal code to give survivors of sexual assault the right to a free medical exam and to have rape kits be preserved for as long as 20 years, among other changes.
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The mandate letter Trudeau gave to Canada's justice minister stated that she would introduce legislation to add gender identity as a prohibited ground for discrimination under Canada's Human Rights Act, and to the list of distinguishing characteristics protected from hate speech under the Criminal Code.
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In India section 153A of the criminal code, which was introduced under British rule, punishes with up to three years in jail those who promote disharmony "on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, caste or community or any other ground whatsoever".
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The government has requested what is viewed as a broad swath of information and data related to the website, but is only allowed to seize information that could be evidence of violations of D.C. criminal code governing rioting, according to the amended search warrant.
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Although no violation of the criminal code is required for impeachment, this president has committed bribery, extortion, obstruction of a lawful congressional investigation, conspiracy, facilitation of foreign interference in an election, and the mishandling of congressionally appropriated funds in violation of the Impoundment Control Act.
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The U.S. Justice Department, which has pushed for the rule change since 2013, has described it as a minor modification needed to modernize the criminal code for the digital age, and has said it would not permit searches or seizures that are not already legal.
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As well as opposing the criminal code and the assault on the KPK, the students are calling for palm-oil giants to be held responsible for forest fires and for an end to the army's brutal rule in the Indonesian half of New Guinea.
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Sweden began crafting changes to its criminal code in 2014, after feminist organizations created a hashtag campaign, #samtycke (consent) to protest a series of acquittals in prominent sexual assault cases, including the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl in a Stockholm suburb.
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This means that beyond charging specific violations of the federal criminal code, Mueller does not have an option to provide a public report laying out the bigger picture, in the same way that former independent counsels, like Kenneth Starr, had the power to do.
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Sokolovsky was arrested the following month under Article 282 -- incitement of hatred or enmity and humiliation of human dignity -- and Article 148 -- violation of the right to freedom of conscience and freedom of religion -- of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, according to Amnesty International.
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Several federal statutes criminalize such behavior, but "it is difficult to determine the exact number of prosecutions that have been brought because the terms used to describe the crimes do not match up exactly with the federal criminal code," according to a 2016 United States Attorneys' Bulletin.
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" The federal criminal code does not contain a crime called "collusion," which may be one reason that Mr. Trump's lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, uttered the eyebrow-raising statement last month that "my client didn't do it, and even if he did it, it's not a crime.
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A court in Bobigny, a northeastern suburb of Paris, found the men guilty of "participating in a group formed with the goal of committing violence," a provision in France's criminal code that punishes people who prepare acts of violence, even if they do not carry them out.
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To go into effect, the reform would need to amend several articles of the constitution, create a new federal criminal code, set out new procedures, modify an existing law that defines legal challenges, and change the legal framework of the attorney general's office and its regulations.
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But in the context of controversial new revisions to the country's criminal code—which would criminalise extra-marital sex and endorse chauvinistic local by-laws—lawmakers will have to demonstrate that the new marriage age for girls is more than a token gesture towards gender equality.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people have protested across Indonesia this week over a proposed new criminal code that would outlaw sex outside marriage, among other things, and which has now been put on hold by President Joko Widodo in the face of public pressure.
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Our Mohamed was initially arrested under a new "fear of terrorism" provision in the Canadian criminal code that allows law enforcement to arrest people based on the mere suspicion they might engage in terrorism — but wasn't officially charged with a terror-related offence until a few days later.
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READ: Police shoot far more people than anyone realized, a VICE News investigation reveals Florida's criminal code, for example, has what's called a "fleeing felon" law, which give cops the legal authority to use deadly force if they need to stop someone who's committed a felony from escaping arrest.
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The Spanish High Court (Audiencia Nacional) found him guilty of the charge of "glorifying terrorism" in his songs and, therefore, found him in breach of Article 578 of the Spanish Criminal Code, which carries with it potential fines, bans from jobs in the public sector and even prison sentences.
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" While the courts may "compel" a third party—like BlackBerry—to help during an investigation, the RCMP statement reads, "there is no specific power in the Criminal Code to compel a third party to decrypt or develop decryption tools, nor is there any requirement for telecommunications services to provide these services.
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"With its criminal complaint, Public Eye is calling on the Office of the Attorney General to investigate whether Credit Suisse Group AG fulfilled its corporate responsibility to oversee its subsidiary and prevent unlawful conduct as required of companies by the Swiss criminal code," the pressure group said in a statement.
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"The main concerns relate to developments interfering with judicial independence and the effective fight against corruption, including the protection of financial interests of the EU and particularly to the recently adopted amendments to the criminal code that create a de facto impunity for crimes," spokesman Margaritis Schinas told a news briefing.
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In 21993, Germany announced it would make financial reparations from a fund of 213 million euros to anyone convicted under Paragraph 20113, a provision in the German criminal code that was employed by the Nazi regime to force homosexuals into concentration camps and that remained on the books until 22011.
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New York was one of the first states to decriminalize abortion, but its abortion laws were actually just an exception in the criminal code: In 211, the state removed a ban on abortions before 26 weeks of pregnancy and on abortions after 218 weeks if the woman's life was in danger.
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For six months, they effectively disappeared, under a provision of the Chinese criminal code that allows the police to hold suspects incommunicado for ''residential surveillance in a designated location,'' a practice that the United Nations Commission on Human Rights has asked the government to end ''as a matter of urgency.
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